its neighbour by a little chequered border. Two are decorated with isolated conventional sprigs, and two with a waved stem-line, bearing little blossoms. The whole forms a rich piece of pattern, a very typical piece of decorated band-work. In these examples the coloured band may be V. considered as… … FIG. 223. primary colour bands, as in the design drawn in Fig. stem- 223. This scheme is the basis of a great number of ban,d . ,, T . work into very excellent patterns. It is easy to fill the spaces surface between the stems with recurring ornament which, decora- however simple it may be, derives…
Decoration and ornament
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